Plenty of Fish

A dating website Plenty of Fish was targeted in a cyber attack through a third-party advertising network, ad.360yield.com.

The attacker used malicious ad that points to an exploit tool which takes advantage of known vulnerabilities in browsers and popular browser plug-ins like Flash Player, Java, Adobe Reader and Silverlight.

Source: https://blog.itgovernance.co.uk/blog/users-of-dating-site-plenty-of-fish-targeted-by-cyber-attack

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/plentyoffish

"id": "ple231423422",
"linkid": "plentyoffish",
"type": "Cyber Attack",
"date": "08/2015",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "5",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the organization's existence"

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                        'name': 'Plenty of Fish',
                        'type': 'Dating Website'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Malicious Advertisement',
 'description': 'A dating website Plenty of Fish was targeted in a cyber '
                'attack through a third-party advertising network, '
                'ad.360yield.com. The attacker used malicious ad that points '
                'to an exploit tool which takes advantage of known '
                'vulnerabilities in browsers and popular browser plug-ins like '
                'Flash Player, Java, Adobe Reader and Silverlight.',
 'initial_access_broker': {'entry_point': 'ad.360yield.com'},
 'title': 'Plenty of Fish Cyber Attack',
 'type': 'Cyber Attack',
 'vulnerability_exploited': ['Flash Player',
                             'Java',
                             'Adobe Reader',
                             'Silverlight']}